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The surly spins: 1) Gen Xers don't know him and think his name refers only to burger joints.
The White House helped itself with a brilliant outreach campaign that went around the sometimes surly Congressional Black Caucus and reached black voters directly through their ministers and churches.
The surly spin, from Iran's chief theocrat, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei: Iran's "arrogant opponents felt the bitter taste of defeat."
Under Brill's system, I could pay $20-$40 a year to license a used revolver; take a joke of a test administered by a surly, bored, bureaucrat; and carry a concealed weapon anywhere in the country.
Entrapment is an A-list production, but despite Ving Rhames as Connery's enigmatically surly cohort and a bevy of state-of-the-art sensors, cybergizmos, and digital readouts, it can't manage to brush off its B-movie cobwebs or to freshen banter that Rhett would have been too progressive to lay on Scarlett.